olive-branch

基本解释

• 橄榄枝

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• After years of quarrelling we at last sent our cousins a Christmas card as an olive-branch.
  我们与堂兄弟多年不和，最后我们送给他们一张圣诞卡，算是化。

原声例句

• Stuart Levy,a co-founder of Olive Branch D.C., a Washington-based interfaith group bringing together young professional Jews and Muslims.

权威例句

• The extra-long olive branch will be slightly unusual for Microsoft if it's confirmed, but then the company is also trying to move along a user base that in some cases has clung to XP for more than a decade.
  ENGADGET: Microsoft reportedly plans Windows 8 upgrades all the way from XP, wants us to just let go of the past
• McLennan, 64, coordinates out-of-town trips for Olive Branch seniors.
  FORBES: Sheboygan WI
• It was an olive branch to his by-then estranged friend and a plea for him to return to the yellow house, where they had once depicted this middle-aged proprietress of a local cafe.
  ECONOMIST: Van Gogh and Gauguin: Sunny side down The

英英字典

柯林斯英英字典

• If you offer an olive branch to someone, you say or do something in order to show that you want to end a disagreement or quarrel.